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  title info:
    title: Reacher
    sub title: the stories behind the stories
  name:
    name part: Child, Lee
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Penzler, Otto
    role:
      role term: writer of afterword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 221 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: After making his debut in 1997's 'Killing floor,' Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular, and most enduring, fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written solely by Lee Child, chock full of colorful anecdotes and intriguing inspirations. One by one, they expand upon each novel and place it in the context not only of the author's life, but of the world outside the books. And taken together, they chart the rise of an action icon, from 'Killing floor' to 2019's 'Blue moon.' An afterword by crime fiction expert and bookseller Otto Penzler considers the importance of the character and novels in the canon of contemporary crime fiction. This volume also includes an original Reacher short story, the first new Reacher appearance entirely written by Lee Child since 2019. Entertaining and enlightening, 'Reacher: the stories behind the stories' is a must-read for fans of the Jack Reacher series and a capstone to any collection of this excellent author.
  table of contents: Introduction / by Lee Child -- Killing floor (1997) -- Die trying (1998) -- Tripwire (1999) -- Running blind (2000) -- Echo burning (2001) -- Without fail (2002) -- Persuader (2003) -- The enemy (2004) -- One shot (2005) -- The hard way (2006) -- Bad luck and trouble (2007) -- Nothing to lose (2008) -- Gone tomorrow (2009) -- 61 hours (2010) -- Worth dying for (2010) -- The affair (2011) -- A wanted man (2012) -- Never go back (2013) -- Personal (2014) -- Make me (2015) -- Night school (2014) -- The midnight line (2017) -- Past tense (2018) -- Blue moon (2019) -- A better place -- Afterword / by Otto Penzler.
  note: Lee Child.
  note: "Featuring a new, original Reacher short story, 'A better place.'"
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Child, Lee
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Reacher, Jack
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Suspense fiction
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Suspense fiction
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Narration (Rhetoric)
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Technique
  classification: PS3553.H4838 Z46 2025
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Better place
    name:
      name part: Child, Lee.
  identifier: 9781613167069
  identifier: 1613167067
  identifier: 2025935474
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250821
    record change date: 20251219211404.5
    record identifier: in00005669843